by Shauna O’Meara   The heat-cracked thoroughfare of the Lahad Datu Night Market is  packed with Last Chance tourists, the stop-start progression of browsers providing ample opportunity for pickpockets, vendors, and beggars. Sitting on a crate behind a door straddling two fish buckets, I fan myself with a switch of pandanus as I watch an…

by Lindsay Redifer Every morning when I wake up, I hear the town’s single mitoto pounding cassava leaves and the roar of the waves on our beach. I always check the floor to see if it’s flooded, then I swing out of bed and put on my flip-flops. I like to wake up around five…

by Yakos Spiliotopoulos Anwar shudders every time he hears the emphatic footsteps of soldiers marching up and down the halls outside. He knows that they are either with him, or coming for him. Hail and wind lash the cast-iron windows in short, angry bursts. Anwar paces, nervously chafing at the scar on the back of…

by Ed Finn Paolo Bacigalupi is the New York Times-bestselling author of novels for adults including The Water Knife (2015) and The Windup Girl (2009),   and novels for young adults including Ship Breaker (2010) and its sequel The Drowned Cities (2012). Paolo is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, Michael L. Printz,…